Brett Steigh, a Narbonne grad, booster and gambler, said in a Monday night podcast that he paid parents to bring players to Narbonne, St. Bernard and Bishop Montgomery.

During an interview on a YouTube stream of the “Fattal Factor,” Steigh said in 2018 and 2024 at Narbonne, he recruited players without the knowledge of the head coaches while paying parents to move. Both times, Narbonne was sanctioned by the City Section for rule violations.

Then, in 2020, he said he met with St. Bernard president Carter Paysinger and agreed to support that school after former Narbonne coach Manuel Douglas went there. Douglas and Steigh became the subject of FBI and IRS investigations. Douglas resigned in 2020 and St. Bernard shut down its football program in 2021, 2022 and 2023 .

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